Transcripts For CSPAN2 Cassandra King Discusses A Lowcountry

Cassandra kinging in the author of five novels including moonrise her literary homage to rebound becca. Moon rice was moonrise was a southeastern independent book ellers alliance best seller. Cassandra king is joining us today to hell celebrate a beloved writer and friend of festival. Pat conroy. He has influenced a generation of writers and moved readers both in and out of the low country with his enforcingis gettable prose. Today she was success hi book of essays published posthumously. I always struggle with that word. Please give a very warm welcome to cassandra king. [applause] thank you so much. Great to be here in sister city of savannah. I live in buford. I come over here frequently and pat i both loved satisfy van nave always think of savannah as scar let scarlet oparaand charles son is miss melanie. I have a soft spot for savannah. This, of course, is bittersweet for me to be here, talking about pat, especially this time of year because its been almost a year, two or three off from a year since his death. So its been a very difficult year as im sure you know. When the book came out last october, his publisher, random house, had asked me about if i would go around and speak to various festivals and soing for about the book, and if i would be able to do so. I told them, of course, that i would, and it wouldnt be any problem. And so forth. But then i wasnt so sure once i started to do so, but what kept me going is i told myself, pat would have done it for me. And he did. I remember one time, thomasville, georgia, right here in your state, got a great surprise and a great thrill because theyre still talking about it because i got the flu, and i was supposed to speak, something in thomasville, and just the day of, practically, i felt the most stubborn and pat said, im going in your place. So they were thrilled. A lot of folks then hoped i would get the flu. But if you ever heard pat speak, you will know why. He was absolutely one of the most entertaining speakers i have ever heard. Not that you could believe [applause] half of his blarney because he was one hundred percent irish, i can tell you that. But he was absolutely an entertaining and wonderful speaker. Has been rather strange in some ways to good around and speak for another writer about another writers book and then to even sign that writers book. When i came to the savannah book festival for the own book several years ago, i was one of the first folks up here, i spoke in this church and since i have written a book that some methodists didnt take very kindly to, i kept saying, are you sure . Its going to be okay for me to speak there . But then last night, the reception, i was told that pat spoke here when last time he was here and i thought, well, i if the church survived pat, it sure survive me. Think sometimes were given these book tours to keep news our place and to keep us humble. I was lucky to tell this story about how writers can always stay humble because i had done a book signing in my home town in alabama, and was coming home and i saw an estate sale. So i pulled in to the sale, and was looking round, and there was a dollar table there, and i found one of my books signed by me, to someone in the town. So, i take the book up to the man running the estate sale and i says is this book a dollar . And he looked at me and says, yeah, you can have it for 50cents. [laughter] so, i want to read a quote from the los angeles times. Written several years ago by pat. Misfortune has been good to novelist pat conroy. It has given him family of eccentric, noor rootics, miss fifths, bragarts and liars. Since i read that im not quite sure which category i fall into. Maybe a little bit of all of those. But i was thinking about talking about pat and trying to make folks see the pat that i accident my 19, the last 19 years with, and loved dearly, and respected so much, and enjoyed so much, that i was thinking, well, guess i could good around and do sort of a presentation as though i were speaking to my english classes about his works and he has a writer and his themes and all this sort of stuff, but i was thinking, no, thats not really pat. What i think ill do instead, what ive been doing when ive had these talks, is just to tell some stories, some pat stories that i hope will help you see the kind of person that he was to live with, because it was quite a trip. Quite a trip. Was also very, very blessed to have had that time with him. And this i want to make sure i leave plenty of time for questions. Im looking for me tell me when its time to shut my mouth and let you ask questions bass i imagine you have plenty of questions about him. I was thinking in terms of what would be the story the story is could tell about pat. Theres so many. And theyre just about all funny because he was the fun funniest person ive ever known and he was like that all the time. I had people say to me, and this is the truth, a couple of occasions oh, honey, married to pat con troy . Pat conroy . Bless your heart. Mean that must really be difficult. Just so dark and, you know, so tortured and all of this. I felt like i was married to a modernday heathcliff. But could i see why he would think that about pat, but i think no, thats me. That wasnt pat. He is the one you should be saying, bless youth heart. He was so good natured. He got inup in a good mood every morning. Sometimes i cooperate get round him for a while because she was to cheerful. Not the tortured part did come out in his writing, but i was thinking one of my favorite things about pat is he was never at a loss for words. He was it was like most writers, an introvert side to him but he was very much an extrovert otherwise because i know one characteristic of extrovert is have a ready reply. Im an inthrow vote and always think afterwards i should have say so and so or that person was sarcastic and just didnt know what to say. And say the pat never had that problem. As matter of fact it was pretty interesting to hear some of this responses. Occasionally i traveled with him, not too much especially after he were married a while. You know how that is. Its a novelty at first and then its a chore. But he was also combative, and he spent most of his life battling somebody oar some institution or he would take on anybody about anything, and i some of you here are going to know what talk about when i say savannah and a certain institute here is no exception. He got into a battle about that a few years ago. But his very first book, he this started when he was 25 years old and he took on the buford county board of occasion and took on his favorite target maybe his second favorite the citadel and then his father and family and anything he perceived as an injustice, he was ready always to fight. So, consequently, he would now, this hardly ever happened to me. Ive had happen a few times but pat would tend to have some hostility sometimes from an audience, and i would cringe at first because somebody would get up and say, oh, mr. Conroy, now, you said in a recent interview that blah blah blah, and be questioning i would get really nervous but i learn not to worry at all. Market of fact i would begin to feel sorry for one because i knew that sharp tongue would get him theyd shut up. So, one of his favorite targets was his dear alma mater this citadel. And he actually loved it. He enjoyed picking on them. That is one of his favorite things and anyone he would say about the citadel would be picked up. So talk about him being at a loss for words. Ill tell you the one time i did see him at a loss for words but he for example, the way he picked on the citadel, he once said in an interview that the citadel owed him a great debt of gratitude. That he was living proof that they could produce a graduate who is not only knew how to use his semi colon but knew it was not part of the small intestine. They didnt appreciate that much. So, one time i was with him. He had just given a talk. This man gets up and says, mr. Conroy, i have a lot of citadel friends and they tell me not to pay any attention to what you wrote about the citadel because you are not a typical citadel man. And pat said, youre right, pal. Im a lot nicer, im a lot more successful, and im a whole lot smarter. [laughter] so that was him. One time i saw him. [laughter] they tell you get out of this one and he threw his arms up and said praise the lord. I run a Christian Radio Program and the lord promised me that he would send a speaker for tomorrows program. [laughter] i was laughing so hard i had to go out of the room. I will have to tell you about my one and only come back and i was so proud of it i go around telling it all the time. But i was speaking at a festival in fort lauderdale. When i got. Noticed i was on the program, they had a huge program with three really well known women writers, it was southern women. I thought all i have to do is do my talk and answer questions and assure enough, after we got through people said when is your next book coming out and others i dont remember now i was just sitting there and i guess of paying that much attention because a young man got up and said i have a question for ms. King. I would like to know what it is like to live with a worldclass writer. [laughter] i said i think he likes it pretty well. [laughter] and i dont even know where that came from. [laughter] okay, stories. Pat, what was he, how can i tell you about pat . He lived in another world, he lived in his head aloft and so he was not very attentive. If youve seen pictures of him, hes always wearing the same thing. His wardrobe, he was not a fashion plate or anything like that. Khakis and a Navy Blue Shirt usually end navy blue blazer. He didnt think, he would just pull out anything and for some reason, there was something about him and having to go to a funeral that didnt work with his wardrobe choices. When i lost my sister three years ago he came and this seemed to happen a lot, i went to get his clothes out because he just came without anything, went to the car to get his clothes except he hadnt brought any. [laughter] so the morning of the Memorial Service, we were out shopping. There wasnt any small town in alabama, but there was a shop that sold about the only thing we could find, we didnt have time to go for belts or Something Like that. So they had prom clothing. [laughter] so he goes to my sisters funeral and gives her eulogy looking like an italian pimp. [laughter] there was another time when a good dear friend of ours in virginia died and pat is going g to speak at her memorial servi service, it was barbara that he wrote about and has an essay in the book. I wasnt able to attend. I had to fly to something and wasnt able to go, so pat was going to drive up to the Memorial Service and then was getting some kind of big big award in columbia, South Carolina at the college and the president was presenting the award and so forth, so i thought i had learned my lesson, so i packed his clothes and took a sheet of paper and wrote columbia South Carolina on it and put it over the hanging clothing and put them in the trunk. He left in his khaki tshirt and sports jacket. It was cold so he had a sports jacket and so, explain everything to him and he had back problems. I wasnt like his ballet or anything but sometimes i would get the suitcase. Sure enough, i go out there to bring his suitcase and after he had returned home from this presentation and jonathan, you might have been there and pretended that you didnt know him as i would have done if i had been there because still hanging over the suitcase were my notes be sure to wear this columbia South Carolina at which he hadnt done and never read it. I said you were this for three days. You wore this to the service and was i supposed to wear this . [laughter] so he is very endearing about that. One more story and then i am going to see if we have some questions from you. This is one of my favorites and it involves his dear friend barney who is a whole story in himself. If you have read any of pats work and im sure most of you have which is why hes here, bernie has been a lot of them and its just of the most is ju outrageous person. So he packed together were a total suit or i thought so until this happened. So, in the last couple of years of pats wife, she had given up some of his bad habits so instead of having cocktails, he took up another bad habit as burning would have a cigar everr afternoon sitting on the porch, and this is an upstairs porch that we have in our house. A little smoking porch i guess, and so they would have these wonderful discussions. My office i have sometimes at work setting is a daybed right by the window. They are right above me and i would love to hear because they have such a big mouth, obnoxious as all get out. But all of a sudden, great conversations about literature and they would get into heated discussions. So a couple of summers ago, i had sort of a rough summer having some Health Problems and i wasnt feeling well at all that they. Later on that afternoon, i got really sick and started perspiring which since im a Southern Belle and never do. [laughter] something was really bad from. So i was lying there on my bed and i could hear them of their cigar smoke coming out. So i called up pat, bernie. They couldnt hear me because their big mouths. Ever had h i could have called a path that he never had his phone or anything so i just called 911. [laughter] because i thought i was dying. I thought i was having a heart attack so they sent sixabout paramedics, huge men that came to hook me up with machines and they said o said arent you hery yourself. I set my husband is upstairs. So he goes looking for your sitting in thhersitting in the e doesnt see pat. So he. Comes back and i didnt know this until later they are carrying me off with the siren, all this sort of stuff about two hours later it gets dark, bernie goes home, pat comes downstairs looking for me. [laughter] and he looks in my office and all around and its dark downstairs that he made dinner for anything so he calls bernie. He said did she go home with you and he said no. [laughter] y. . I cant find her anywhere. Her car is outside so he said hang on and i will come over and help you look. Th so they go looking all through the night and we live on a creek. So pat said shes committed suicide. [laughter] finally, i knew all along, shen jumped in the creek and so forth. [laughter] said he finally said im calling 911. Pat said to you think and he said shes not here, she has to be somewhere. So he calls 911 and they said yes we picked up your wife. [laughter] shes here in the emergency room, she has been here for a while. [laughter]ets be it gets better. [laughter] i thought he was totally incompetent, remember this witha the wardrobe and everything. I bought his car and his daughter drove it back to philadelphia. He had never driven it before, so they had to the hospital when its raining and path cant turn. The lights came on but he couldnt turn on the windshield wipers so he rolls down the window and sticks his head out to drive to the hospital. Lets bernie out while he tries to find a place to park and when he goes in a coma he says my wife is here, they brought her in the ambulance, the man looks down and says her husband is back there with her now. [laughter] so that is life with pat. Never a dull moment even when i was dying. [laughter] but i would love to hear what you would like to know about pat and our life together and his writing or whatever. I would like to open up the floor for questions. Ished my question is about the most cherished gifts. To hear more from him . From him to you. My most cherished gifts are these wonderful notes that he would write to me. Some of them were hilarious. He had a nickname for me he always said when he told people this i know it sounds cruel bute if you knew her you would knowb why. He called me helen keller. [laughter] he called me that all the time. [laughter] it worked out well for him because he could play in me for anything. Well, helen keller didnt tell me this stuff and they would look at him like he really was crazy. His papers are at the universitc of South Carolina library but among them will be helen keller love notes. [laughter] one so there will be a biographer one of these days that gets those. E. Word but they are beautiful words that i will always cherish. A qt i have a gift and a question. We were classmates and i have a copy of a literary magazine where pat was the poetry editor and he has two problems i would like to give you. [applause] i would ask you to speak to some of the wonderful things he wrote about later in his life. Speak to [laughter] no, he did. They kissed and made up. He gave the 2001 im going ty tell you what i am referring to in just a minute. The 2001 commencement speech. His funeral was a haze and i cant remember a whole bunch of it, but when he gave the commencement speech, he invited him to his funeral and everybody thought that was strange tha bun context it made sense because he said when you come to my funeral, and i hope it is going to be a long time before now he said you are going to remember your graduation and how quickly time goes by. So that is one of the things i remember from the funeral. [inaudible] yes, a lot of these peoplebl] were there. [inaudible]ched m yes. That was really touching. He had a great time with them. I think that he got it out of his system. [inaudible] what is my Favorite Book and why. I have a bunch of them for Different Reasons that isnt so much a diplomatic answer as a really truth. The first one i read was the waters wide. I still love that book and will always love it. I guess if i had to only have one, it would be the prince of tides because it has everything. Its so beautiful. Okay. I would like to add a plugin for the pancreatic Cancer Networks research and if anybody could make donations to them. Ive lost my mother to that al also. Second, i ran into pat after his 70th Anniversary Party in a hotel lobby when he was trying to steal my husbands newspaper. I went out and die old and then apologize to him for not being able to make the party as my father was passing away at thate time and said dont worry abouth it. It was horrible. There were these famous people there in my family and you wouldnt have wanted to talk to any of them. [laughter]you for he was humble and down to earth. [applause] it is good to see you back. You were there for the very first festival and a lot of people have shared wishes with me having to do with the tenth anniversary. You and pat were both huge to quote the president , contributors to the success of this thing. I always related to one of his less wellknown book the waters wide because my father born in 1900 internal county georgia which might as well have been the 18 hundreds in missouri loved his students like pat loved his and he didnt give agi damn about the organization. He would teach classes as a the Christian Radio Program<\/a> and the lord promised me that he would send a speaker for tomorrows program. [laughter] i was laughing so hard i had to go out of the room. I will have to tell you about my one and only come back and i was so proud of it i go around telling it all the time. But i was speaking at a festival in fort lauderdale. When i got. Noticed i was on the program, they had a huge program with three really well known women writers, it was southern women. I thought all i have to do is do my talk and answer questions and assure enough, after we got through people said when is your next book coming out and others i dont remember now i was just sitting there and i guess of paying that much attention because a young man got up and said i have a question for ms. King. I would like to know what it is like to live with a worldclass writer. [laughter] i said i think he likes it pretty well. [laughter] and i dont even know where that came from. [laughter] okay, stories. Pat, what was he, how can i tell you about pat . He lived in another world, he lived in his head aloft and so he was not very attentive. If youve seen pictures of him, hes always wearing the same thing. His wardrobe, he was not a fashion plate or anything like that. Khakis and a Navy Blue Shirt<\/a> usually end navy blue blazer. He didnt think, he would just pull out anything and for some reason, there was something about him and having to go to a funeral that didnt work with his wardrobe choices. When i lost my sister three years ago he came and this seemed to happen a lot, i went to get his clothes out because he just came without anything, went to the car to get his clothes except he hadnt brought any. [laughter] so the morning of the Memorial Service<\/a>, we were out shopping. There wasnt any small town in alabama, but there was a shop that sold about the only thing we could find, we didnt have time to go for belts or Something Like<\/a> that. So they had prom clothing. [laughter] so he goes to my sisters funeral and gives her eulogy looking like an italian pimp. [laughter] there was another time when a good dear friend of ours in virginia died and pat is going g to speak at her memorial servi service, it was barbara that he wrote about and has an essay in the book. I wasnt able to attend. I had to fly to something and wasnt able to go, so pat was going to drive up to the Memorial Service<\/a> and then was getting some kind of big big award in columbia, South Carolina<\/a> at the college and the president was presenting the award and so forth, so i thought i had learned my lesson, so i packed his clothes and took a sheet of paper and wrote columbia South Carolina<\/a> on it and put it over the hanging clothing and put them in the trunk. He left in his khaki tshirt and sports jacket. It was cold so he had a sports jacket and so, explain everything to him and he had back problems. I wasnt like his ballet or anything but sometimes i would get the suitcase. Sure enough, i go out there to bring his suitcase and after he had returned home from this presentation and jonathan, you might have been there and pretended that you didnt know him as i would have done if i had been there because still hanging over the suitcase were my notes be sure to wear this columbia South Carolina<\/a> at which he hadnt done and never read it. I said you were this for three days. You wore this to the service and was i supposed to wear this . [laughter] so he is very endearing about that. One more story and then i am going to see if we have some questions from you. This is one of my favorites and it involves his dear friend barney who is a whole story in himself. If you have read any of pats work and im sure most of you have which is why hes here, bernie has been a lot of them and its just of the most is ju outrageous person. So he packed together were a total suit or i thought so until this happened. So, in the last couple of years of pats wife, she had given up some of his bad habits so instead of having cocktails, he took up another bad habit as burning would have a cigar everr afternoon sitting on the porch, and this is an upstairs porch that we have in our house. A little smoking porch i guess, and so they would have these wonderful discussions. My office i have sometimes at work setting is a daybed right by the window. They are right above me and i would love to hear because they have such a big mouth, obnoxious as all get out. But all of a sudden, great conversations about literature and they would get into heated discussions. So a couple of summers ago, i had sort of a rough summer having some Health Problems<\/a> and i wasnt feeling well at all that they. Later on that afternoon, i got really sick and started perspiring which since im a Southern Belle<\/a> and never do. [laughter] something was really bad from. So i was lying there on my bed and i could hear them of their cigar smoke coming out. So i called up pat, bernie. They couldnt hear me because their big mouths. Ever had h i could have called a path that he never had his phone or anything so i just called 911. [laughter] because i thought i was dying. I thought i was having a heart attack so they sent sixabout paramedics, huge men that came to hook me up with machines and they said o said arent you hery yourself. I set my husband is upstairs. So he goes looking for your sitting in thhersitting in the e doesnt see pat. So he. Comes back and i didnt know this until later they are carrying me off with the siren, all this sort of stuff about two hours later it gets dark, bernie goes home, pat comes downstairs looking for me. [laughter] and he looks in my office and all around and its dark downstairs that he made dinner for anything so he calls bernie. He said did she go home with you and he said no. [laughter] y. . I cant find her anywhere. Her car is outside so he said hang on and i will come over and help you look. Th so they go looking all through the night and we live on a creek. So pat said shes committed suicide. [laughter] finally, i knew all along, shen jumped in the creek and so forth. [laughter] said he finally said im calling 911. Pat said to you think and he said shes not here, she has to be somewhere. So he calls 911 and they said yes we picked up your wife. [laughter] shes here in the emergency room, she has been here for a while. [laughter]ets be it gets better. [laughter] i thought he was totally incompetent, remember this witha the wardrobe and everything. I bought his car and his daughter drove it back to philadelphia. He had never driven it before, so they had to the hospital when its raining and path cant turn. The lights came on but he couldnt turn on the windshield wipers so he rolls down the window and sticks his head out to drive to the hospital. Lets bernie out while he tries to find a place to park and when he goes in a coma he says my wife is here, they brought her in the ambulance, the man looks down and says her husband is back there with her now. [laughter] so that is life with pat. Never a dull moment even when i was dying. [laughter] but i would love to hear what you would like to know about pat and our life together and his writing or whatever. I would like to open up the floor for questions. Ished my question is about the most cherished gifts. To hear more from him . From him to you. My most cherished gifts are these wonderful notes that he would write to me. Some of them were hilarious. He had a nickname for me he always said when he told people this i know it sounds cruel bute if you knew her you would knowb why. He called me helen keller. [laughter] he called me that all the time. [laughter] it worked out well for him because he could play in me for anything. Well, helen keller didnt tell me this stuff and they would look at him like he really was crazy. His papers are at the universitc of South Carolina<\/a> library but among them will be helen keller love notes. [laughter] one so there will be a biographer one of these days that gets those. E. Word but they are beautiful words that i will always cherish. A qt i have a gift and a question. We were classmates and i have a copy of a literary magazine where pat was the poetry editor and he has two problems i would like to give you. [applause] i would ask you to speak to some of the wonderful things he wrote about later in his life. Speak to [laughter] no, he did. They kissed and made up. He gave the 2001 im going ty tell you what i am referring to in just a minute. The 2001 commencement speech. His funeral was a haze and i cant remember a whole bunch of it, but when he gave the commencement speech, he invited him to his funeral and everybody thought that was strange tha bun context it made sense because he said when you come to my funeral, and i hope it is going to be a long time before now he said you are going to remember your graduation and how quickly time goes by. So that is one of the things i remember from the funeral. [inaudible] yes, a lot of these peoplebl] were there. [inaudible]ched m yes. That was really touching. He had a great time with them. I think that he got it out of his system. [inaudible] what is my Favorite Book<\/a> and why. I have a bunch of them for Different Reasons<\/a> that isnt so much a diplomatic answer as a really truth. The first one i read was the waters wide. I still love that book and will always love it. I guess if i had to only have one, it would be the prince of tides because it has everything. Its so beautiful. Okay. I would like to add a plugin for the pancreatic Cancer Networks<\/a> research and if anybody could make donations to them. Ive lost my mother to that al also. Second, i ran into pat after his 70th Anniversary Party<\/a> in a hotel lobby when he was trying to steal my husbands newspaper. I went out and die old and then apologize to him for not being able to make the party as my father was passing away at thate time and said dont worry abouth it. It was horrible. There were these famous people there in my family and you wouldnt have wanted to talk to any of them. [laughter]you for he was humble and down to earth. [applause] it is good to see you back. You were there for the very first festival and a lot of people have shared wishes with me having to do with the tenth anniversary. You and pat were both huge to quote the president , contributors to the success of this thing. I always related to one of his less wellknown book the waters wide because my father born in 1900 internal county georgia which might as well have been the 18 hundreds in missouri loved his students like pat loved his and he didnt give agi damn about the organization. He would teach classes as a the School Superintendent<\/a> at every opportunity. I was interested when pat spoke here in that same spot about hia relationship h key was published by citadel people and related the story of his first oscar for my publisher the stories around past are amazing and you shared so many of them today that i will never forget the editor of new york that said this is the cutest thing. How did he come to get the first manuscript typed . It was written in longhand and that wasnt acceptable so how did he manage to get a manuscript put together . This has been verified by other people that his first wifw barbara and he took chapters all around to anybody they knew that the typewriter that would be willing to type so some of it ended up typed on their personal stationery and some of it was an assortment. Lo im sorry but hasnt survived the first manuscript. I dont think it has. Can i tell you why i keep referring to john over here getting a plug . We recently opened up a pat conroy literary center. [applause] weve got our First Program<\/a> next monday night and jonathan is here as the director, he was the former director of the university of South Carolina<\/a> press and we were very fortunate to have john and he was instrumental in getting the archives at the South Carolina<\/a> library and so forth. Cities sort of my builtin google over here. [laughter] we have one more, to more. How much did he really cook . Im glad you asked that because im writing a cookbook memoir now and its going to be about our life together and some of our cooking experiences. I want it to be a light book with some of the stories i told you today. When we first married, he was doing most of the cooking and we have huge families on both sides so we were having 25 people over for dinner and that was nothing unusual so i was happy to turn the cooking over to pat. But one thing everybody says about him and i totally agree, he was larger than life. Thats what you think of when you think of him in so manyity,s ways, his personality, writing,k just a larger than life person. He made huge dishes with leftovers. Ow, a litt i would take over the cooking a little bit especially as he tried to get healthier because he couldnt cook without heavy cream, butter and his favorite was bacon drippings, which, of course the most delicious, heavy cream, bacon, whats worse for you. U know so, i got him healthier which was to take up the cooking whic. I did. But we had a lot of fun putting together and having dinner parties together and so forth. Things you all so much. [applause] heres a look at some authors recently featured on after words were weekly Author Interview<\/a> program. The parents sabrina and tracy martin talk about their sons life and death america is a great country but youre confused by who we are and what we want and that is what we are wrestling with so much. The problem you saw is half the country feels one way and another is another way. It was largely White America<\/a> of a certain class and then you have urban americ america of whs the difference of unemployment and crime and joh we live diffet experiences and we dont talk about that, but the unity comes in that we love our country and not that we experience life the same. Every saturday at 10 p. M. And sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern. You can watch all programs on the website booktv. 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